The Pandemic Scare

The Pandemic Scare
We want our family always in good health but now there are diseases spreading that scare us.





In the recent years, lots of diseases has already manage to scare a lot of people and up to this days, some of them don’t have any treatment but prevention. Now that Swine flu is here. Will it kills thousands of people too like the previous diseases that it follows.

In some country, the pandemic alert has been raised to that critical level wherein most nearby countries wouldn’t want their people to go in other country. Some people are suggesting that the government should hire more nurses and put some movable quarantine area for doctors to use. Is this the same case in your country?

THIS STARTED out, seemingly, like any other case of influenza in Mexico.

Now, influenza A (H1N1) has escalated into a global pandemic, as declared by the World Health Organization.

Now this has spread to more than 90 countries, infecting almost 50,000 people and taken more than 200 lives.

At Level 6, the highest pandemic alert level by the WHO, the spread of A
(H1N1) is now considered "unstoppable."

As the virus continues to spread, and talks about A (H1N1) occupy discussions, other newly emerging viruses seem to have flown off the radar. In truth, A (H1N1) is only one of several emerging viruses that threaten public health.

World View investigates these other viruses, their origins and what can be done to avert their potentially deadly effects.

In South Africa and Zambia, a newly discovered virus called "Lujo," killed five people just last year. Some experts consider this virus more lethal than A (H1N1), and patients have manifested a much lower rate of recovery.

But like A (H1N1), initially called "swine flu", the "Lujo" virus is also believed to have come from animals. The same is true for several other diseases.

A Public Affairs' resident veterinarian Doc Ferds Recio travels to places where certain viruses are known to exist, and studies their impact on human lives.

According to Doc Ferds Recio investigation sheds light on the need to re-examine the interactions between people and animals, and how humans have greatly affected the natural ecology to give way to the emergence of new diseases.


Pandemic scare raises Tamiflu resistance fear

Anti-viral drug Tamiflu must be used with care to avoid the new strain of swine flu developing resistance, an expert on infectious diseases has warned

Roche says it can deliver Tamiflu anywhere within 24 hours when called on by the World Health Organization.